Monthly Archives: November 2011

Adopting the recommendation of the magistrate judge, the Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary to defendant fast-food restaurant because customer failed to allege facts sufficient to find defendant had actual notice of the sticky spot customer claims caused her fall. ...

Borrower is entitled have his state law breach of contract claims remanded to state court, the Richmond U.S. District Court says; claims relating to modification agreements under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) do not arise under federal law for ...

The Richmond U.S. District Court allows trademark claims under New York law to proceed in an action transferred to Virginia and allows defendant wine promoters 23 additional discovery depositions; the court strikes as untimely plaintiff’s opposition to defendants’ motion to ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a petition seeking adjudication of a naturalization application filed by petitioner, a Pakistani citizen and lawful resident of the U.S. who is currently serving a 110-month sentence in federal prison for money laundering in ...

Defendant insurance carrier wins summary judgment in this lawsuit filed by plaintiff title insurance company to recover funds plaintiff allegedly wrongfully transferred to a mortgage-loan lender, in this suit in Richmond U.S. District Court. In the underlying litigation, First Tennessee ...

After a one-day bench trial on plaintiff’s charges that defendants have repeatedly infringed defendant’s copyright by illegally distributing Korean-language television programming, an Alexandria U.S. District Court grants plaintiffs a permanent injunction and damages. A permanent injunction must issue against these ...

Plaintiff environmental groups lack standing to seek declaratory and injunctive relief for alleged violations of federal law arising from government purchasing contracts for fuel derived from Canadian oil sands recovered crude (COSRC) oil, and the Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses ...

A citizen of Cameroon who was a university student newspaper editor and political activist in a Southern Cameroon independence movement, who was repeatedly arrested and beaten for her activism, has her case challenging denial of asylum remanded by the 4th ...

A former Buncombe County, N.C., sheriff who participated in a scheme to illegally bring out-of-state video poker machines into the state and who accepted bribes to allow machines to be used in certain locations has his conspiracy and bribery convictions ...